CHOOSING, RESPECTING, PROTECTING LIFE

NATIONAL CONVENTION FOR LIFE

Actress and presenter Amanda Holden has suffered both a stillbirth and a miscarriage but was helped through the trauma by caring treatment from compassionate professionals, as are many parents.

But, in this Channel 4 Dispatches, Holden investigates the treatment of some couples whose pregnancies end in failure.

She meets a number of mothers who tell her their experiences in the aftermath of their loss left a great deal to be desired, and seeks answers from those in authority in the NHS about the problems she hears.

Along the way, she revisits her own difficult memories to try to understand what these parents are going through.

The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste, with some even used to heat hospitals, an investigation has found.

SUFFERING SERVANT

Who has believed what we have heard? He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their faces he was despised, and we held him of no account.

Isaiah 53:2-3

It’s estimated that there are 40-50 million abortions every year in the world. Already this year (March 26, 2014) almost 10 million babies have been killed by abortion. In less than three months more children have been killed than all people in the Holocaust.